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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Opinion Line Extra

  Dec 18, 2007 | via The Wichita Eagle 

  The 80 percent of us who do not smoke have a right to say, "Don't smoke near me." Your right to smoke ends when it affects my health insurance premiums.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Al Gore, Sumner County, TN, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Starbucks closing 600 stores nationwide

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Ohio Democrats get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via WXIX-TV Cincinnati 

  Governor Kathleen Sebelius is telling Ohio Democrats that the door of the White House only opens through their state.

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  Related Topix: Kansas Government, Kansas, Ohio, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures

• Ohio Democrats to get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via KansasCity.com 

  Democratic governors who won in states that twice backed George W. Bush have lessons to offer presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama, one of those governors planned to tell Ohio Democrats on ... 5 comments

  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Kansas Government, Kansas

National Headlines

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  5 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  6 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  6 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  6 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  7 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA